Not in the flashy way everyone was expecting it to, with the explosion of the sun. That's not due for a few billion years yet. Actually, I guess it is more accurate to say civilization ended.

[ He sighs softly. ]

In 2019, something unknown caused every human on the planet to be petrified, turning them to stone and putting them in something like a cold sleep. I've been working on solving the problem, to discover how it came about. After that, nature just took over, so everything humanity built up to that point is pretty much gone.